Also, I have heard success stories of folks finding good contractors at the home improvement stores early in the AM.

Need a place to store it and this place looks awesome!! 

I'm a civil engineer, and for example, I do the civil engineering/permitting for many Gas-Station & Convenience Store.

If so, make sure to visit/know of the grocery stores, restaurants, things to do, etc around the area even if just driving by.

I just subscribed to Pro, but I seem to have 2 different accounts: one for this part of the site and another for the store.

The first neighborhood I would look at is anything next to infrastructure - if it has grocery stores, malls, gas stations.

I'm not crazy about the big box stores as they seem to charge too much. 

And finally, while there are likely some pro accounts that will only give you discounts if you are licensed, most will let anyone sign up, and are often based on volume spent at that store anyways.

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

I have talked to a lot of different ones and have found one that I really like because they have been doing it for twenty years and have vertically integrated property management and construction and a construction warehouse for fixes and everyone is on-staff.